It has been a while since I posted, as other priorities have presented themselves; however, it is time to raise a voice above those priorities and again post my thoughts. Another fatality occurred today (8/11) in the mining industry, and this marks the twenty-fourth fatality this year. Now, some ma

As we go into this year’s maintenance down, I would like to remind everyone that we are our brother’s keepers. There is a poem out there, a poem most of us have heard during a safety talk or two, that is most appropriate for this time. I present Don Merrell’s poem, ‘I Chose to Look The Other W

MSHA's preliminary report states that Neil Witte, a contract crane operator, was fatally injured when he fell beneath the wheels of a tractor-trailer. The report goes on to say that Neil and his fellow workers were using a bulldozer to pull the tractor-trailer which had become stuck in the sand.

An excellent question was asked of me today, and it made me think back onto an article I wrote, 'The Curse of Knowledge'. In The Curse of Knowledge, I speak about how one person’s common knowledge may not be another’s; that curse has again befallen me, for I have found myself assuming. The questio

When looking at this image located on the MSHA website for their "Safety Topic: Mobile Equipment at Surface Mines", what do you see wrong? Please post your thoughts in the comment section below.

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